Biography

GUILLERMO KLEIN's biography

Born in Buenos Aires in 1969, Guillermo Klein is hailed as the most internationally acclaimed Argentine jazz musician, due to his solid academic background and talent, as well as his great originality.
He graduated from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he formed his first ensemble, Big Van, a seventeen-musician orchestra with which he gave some concerts and recorded the album Minotauro. In 1994 he moved to New York, where he held a season at the Small’s club in Greenwich Village for five years alongside a band which would later be reduced to eleven members and renamed Los Guachos, still active today. With Los Guachos he recorded the three-album series Guachos and, more recently, Filtros. In late 2000 he came back to Buenos Aires and formed a nonet with Pipi Piazzolla, Matías Méndez and Juan Cruz de Urquiza, among others. With them he recorded the album Una nave, regarded by The New York Times as one of the ten best jazz albums of 2005, the year it was released in the States on Sunnyside Records. That album would become his first album to be released in his home country, in 2007 on Limbo Music. Since 2002 he lives in Barcelona, where he composes and performs with his two-piano duo alongside Jorge Rossy, and appears with his septet at a small club of the city.
A year after the momentous experience of the Tribute to Cuchi Leguizamón, commissioned by the Buenos Aires Jazz 2008 (directed by Adrián Iaies) and performed to rapturous acclaim before a full house, the pianist is back in the country to present the site www.homenajealcuchi.com (Limbo Music 2009). The site will feature exclusive audiovisual material recorded at the festival: music, videos, scores and free downloadable interactive content.

www.homenajealcuchi.com